Silly, frustrating puzzles detract from the experience – Chess - Play & Learn Review

You’re better off trying to learn Chess in traditional ways than using this app. Specifically, Chess.com has no ability to judge the difficulty of their puzzles and the “ratings” associated with them are meaningless. My “rating” in puzzles far exceeds my actual playing ability because they’re just silly puzzles, many of which don’t teach any valuable lessons. The lessons themselves are mediocre at best, and there is a lot of content, but there are too many puzzles that are entirely too difficult for the rating they associate with them. It detracts from the experience. I’ve been a member for a while now but it just isn’t worth the frustration. Even under the “Learning” setting of puzzles (an odd title, since I thought the general point of puzzles was learning) they STILL evaluate you with a red X when you get something wrong, and if you try to just move on, they keep the red X at the top of your screen to remind you that you got something wrong this session. I don’t understand why they want to be that vindictive- it’s frustrating enough trying to learn. If they cared about what paying customers wanted, they’d change it. But, they don’t.
Review by DN4486 on Chess - Play & Learn.